Biography
Milo Bentley was a sharecropper and Share Croppers' Union member arrested on 21 December 1932 in the aftermath of the Reeltown, Alabama shootout, shot five times "resisting arrest." Held in the Montgomery County jail, he died about ten hours after being transferred to the Kilby Prison hospital on 27 December 1932. On 19 December 1932 a sheriff's posse attacked members of the Communist-led Share Croppers' Union near Reeltown in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, when they resisted the seizure of a member's livestock for debt. Several croppers were shot; the survivors were charged with "assault with intent to murder" and held for the grand jury at the Dadeville jail under $750 bail. The case, following the 1931 Camp Hill affair, became a major ILD Southern defense.
